Re: OT: Why do Republicans hate working Americans?

Fifty-odd years on, he's considered to have been one of the
best, when the perspective of history is applied. And Kennedy,
media darling and lefty icon, ain't lookin' so fresh from the
same angle.

Absolutely true. That's why I say we won't know how history
treats the guy....

TR just bleeding *invaded* Panama, a pure
land grab, and they put him on Mount Rushmore....

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Remember that line in the opening scene of the movie Patton? Americans love
a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Almost everything Bush has touched
has turned to shit, so exactly why would history decide in years to come
that he actually did a good job? What looks like crap today but will be
revealed as gold in a few decades?

Who knows? What looked like crap for other Presidents at the close of
term has been judged as gold by historians.

"Theodore Rex" is an eye-opener.

The trashed economy, the contempt of
America's allies, the loss of jobs to China and India, the thousands of dead
American troops sent looking for fictional WMDs, the use of torture--what
exactly are Bush's positive accomplishments?

Depends on what bears fruit as time goes on. Of the things you listed,
none of them are particularly assigned to them other than torture. The
"fictional WMD" problem... is sheep bleating. Sorry. The 'sting' part
of the strategy known as fait accompli is exactly based on uncertainty
itself. Intelligence is always wrong.

IMO, we mine the harbors and close off all international interaction
or we accept a certain level of error. Can this be improved on? Don't
know.

Our allies are entitled to all the contempt they can carry.

History is already judging Bush, check out The Limits of Power by Andrew
Basevich, and keep in mind this guy is a conservative.

The synopsis on Amazon for that looks very promising. Thanks for
the reference. "in citizens' appetite for unfettered access to
resources, they have tacitly condoned the change of military service
from a civic function into an economic enterprise."

I... kinda agree (the citizenry is culpable ) but surely he knows
why this is. If there is blame, there is blame for all the world.

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